I( iniiiii,!^' ;i |i;iit nl llir wi-^trin i-im ol lln' dr^ril. In lln' spi'in^ 

 ot l"'l'' I was rcciucslfd liy Mr. Sargent to dcrmiU'K- liicaU' Mr. 

 Clovclaiui's statidti. and to ascertain the extent nf llie dis- 

 tribution (if the species in lliat i\\<^i(in. 'I'lin >n,t,di direcliinis kindly 

 .^■iven nu' 1)\ Mr. C'le\-eland I wa^ alile In lind the \'ery tree 

 friMii which his s])eciniens were gathered, which is a well-known 

 object to the cattle-raisers whose herds range over this region. 

 They are confident, from their familiarit}' with llie disli-icl, that 

 it is the only "Ilackberry" growing on this side of the Mexican 

 boimdary. although some of them had seen similar shrubs grow- 

 ing at some distance on the Lower California side. 



In 1885 a road led from Campo to the summit of Laguna 

 mountain, but at present it is passably only t(j Thing's \ alley, 

 fifteen miles northeast. This is a small meadow in the rugged 

 mountains, densely covered with a mixed chaparral, which 

 physicall}' characterize the whole region. Here, on the open zone 

 which separates the chaparral and the meadow, grows a close 

 clump of a dozen stems, ^appearing as if coming from a single 

 root, their interlocked branches uniting in a top fifteen feet high, 

 and spreading from twenty-five to thirty feet wide. Air. Cleve- 

 land noted the height as twelve feet, and as both measurements 

 are estimated there would seem to have been little, if any, in- 

 crase in thirty-four years. 



There are two other known stations for this tree in California, 

 each attested by specimens in the herbarium of the State Uni- 

 versity. One of these is Hackberry Canyon, a tributary of 

 Caliente Creek, Kern County, where, in 1910, ]\Irs. K. Brandegee 

 found a group of small trees, the largest nearly three feet in 

 circumference. The tree is also said to grow on Caliente Creek 

 itself. The other station is Independence, Inyo County, altitude 

 4000 feet, where Dr. H. AI. Hall found specimens, the largest 

 fifteen feet high, growing among Artemesias in a depression in 

 the southwestern edge of the town. 



/ CupRESSUs JMacrocarpa, Hartw\, and its allies. There is in 

 California a group of Cypresses distinguished by the low, up- 

 wardly-impressed umbo of the cones, and consisting of three 

 closely-related species, of discontinuous and very limited dis- 

 tribution. The best known of them, C. macrocarpa, "is the most 

 restricted in its distribution of any Californian tree, and of any 

 coniferous species in the world." (Jepson, Sylva 155.) In fact 

 there are but two native groves, both confined to the immediate 

 seashore of the Alonterey peninsula. The first is about two miles 

 long, and although containing thousands of trees does not extend 

 more than sixty rods back of the edge of the sea cliff ; the other, 

 much smaller, crowns the rocky headland of Point Lobos, near 

 Carmel. This confined natural habitat is in marked contrast to 

 the adaptability shown by the species in cultivation in many parts 



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